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PETER E. MAUER, oF STAPLES, MINNESOTA.

PAPER-BAG CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nafeoaoss, dated-Aprile, lees. j

Application inea. April 30,1897. seria No. 634,633. KN man.) y

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, PETER F. MAUER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Staples, in the county of Todd and State of Minnesota, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Bag Cabinets, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to cabinets or cases for holding paper bags; and itconsists in the larged sectional view through one of the compartments, and Fig. 6 is a sectional View on the line X X of Fig. 5.

This cabinet consists of a casing divided into compartments corresponding to the different sizes of paper bags and with a hinged cover, by which access may be had to all the compartments for the purpose of inserting the bags, and each compartment provided with asliding shelf having a spring connected to keep the sliding shelf normally in its inward position and with a hinged front to each compartment connected to its respective sliding shelf,so that when the front is opened the sliding shelf will be drawn .outward and returned inward by the action of the spring.

The paper bags are placed upon the sliding shelves and held by a pin or other fastening, which,while retaining the bags with force sufiicient to keep them in place,will yield to the force necessary to pull the required bag from the pile.

In the drawings'illustrating my invention the casing is formed with the bottom A', back A2, ends A3 A4, and hinged top A5, the interior being divided into compartments by cross-partitions A6, the widths of these compartments being made to correspond to the widths of the various sizes of paper bags. The :lengths of the compartments will preferably be equal to the length of the longest bag, but the casing may be formed wider at one end than at the other, corresponding to the progressive lengths of the various sizes of bags.

In the illustration nine of the compartments are shown, but the number may beincreased or decreasedl and the sizes varied to any desired extent. Each'compartment is provided with a front A7, hinged at b' to the bottom A and opening downward, as shown in Fig. 4. Each compartment is provided with a sliding shelf B', arranged to run upon Ways d d2, so as'to leave. a vacant space lbetween the bottom A andthe shelf for `a coiled spring e', attached by one end at e2 to the bottom A and at the other end at e3 to the bottom of thel shelf, so as to hold the shelf normally in its `by rods D to the sides of the shelf in the compartments' which the front covers, so that as the front is opened downward the shelf will be drawn outward with it,.as shown in Fig. 4. When the front A7 is turned down'to its lowermost point, the pivots g g2 at the ends of the rods D and the hinges b may be so nearly in line`with the shelf and its spring that the shelf will be locked in its outward position, as in Fig. 4; but by simply pushing the 4front upward slightly the spring will draw the shelf inwardand close the front by reason of the connecting-rods D If it is not desired to lock the front and shelf in their outward position, the front should not be turned down to quite so low a point.

y The supply of bags will be placed upon the shelf, as shown at E in Figs. 3 and-'4, and held in place by some means which, while retaining the bags with a force sufficient to prevent them from falling from the cabinet or to retain all the bags except the one desired,will permit the desired bag to be readily removed without disturbing the others.

A very satisfactory holding device, which fully meets the above requirements, is shown in the drawings, consistingsimply of a pin h, xed in each of the shelves Bf near its inner end and adapted to be passed' through the projecting side of the open ends of thebags. By this simple'arrangement when a bag is desired the front A7, covering the compartment containing the bags of therequired size, isopened downward, which draws the' shelf and its supply of bags outward, as in Fig. 4, in a convenient position for the salesman, and after the removal of the required bag the loo bags are automatically withdrawn into the casing and the front closed, so that they are fully protected from dust 0r iiies and kept in a neat and orderly manner.

All the parts will preferably be of sheet metal, but may be wholly of Wood or partially of wood and partially of metal, as required.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new is In a paper-bag cabinet, a casing divided into compartments corresponding to the sizes of bags, and with a hinged front to each of said compartments, a sliding shelf in the bottom ot' each of said compartments upon which 

